The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics . ousand such like.—PrayMiss K. what do you think of K. As women in generalsay of strong liquors— In a mode-rate degree • Dr. Hill, or rather Sir John Hill, who diedin 1775, observed, in a pamphletwhich he published, under the title of Cautions against the immoderateUse of Snuff, that it corrodes thenerves of the nostrils; impairs andoften destroys the sense of smelling ;that, felling into the mouth, thesativa heroines tinctured by it; andthat the • of the tobacco so much injti ..crves of the (lj ; .
The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics . ousand such like.—PrayMiss K. what do you think of K. As women in generalsay of strong liquors— In a mode-rate degree • Dr. Hill, or rather Sir John Hill, who diedin 1775, observed, in a pamphletwhich he published, under the title of Cautions against the immoderateUse of Snuff, that it corrodes thenerves of the nostrils; impairs andoften destroys the sense of smelling ;that, felling into the mouth, thesativa heroines tinctured by it; andthat the • of the tobacco so much injti ..crves of the (lj ; . ;> :vour of fruit. dulls the apprehension; and, by along course, brings on stupidity,lethargy, &c. Miss Ere. I have heard that itis a strong narcotic, or stupifier :but Sir John may, perhaps, haveexaggerated. Many doctors haveunreasonable objections to particu-lar things. I have heard of onewho often railed at muffins, whichhe called spongy substances, andwould kick about the floor; and ofanother equally inveterate against Very slow, indeed,old woman, his patient;. tea, which he denominated a slow poison. said an I have drunk it above eighty years, and am not poisoned think you of freckles ? Are they not an enemy to beauty ?Miss K. Certainly they are. Smoothness and clearness belong to beauty. Dr. Homberg says, that bullocks gall mixed with alum, and after the alum is precipitated, exposed threeor four months to the sun in a closephial, is the best remedy for frecklesever discovered. I forgot to observe, when speak-ing of the face, that when we closethe teeth, as when we are lifting aweight, a small elevation is pro-duced by the temple. The sculp-tors have adopted a method ofgiving an appearance of more lifeand expression to the eyes of theirbusts and figures than formerly, bymaking and digging holes in produces a shade, and addsgreatly to the appearance of life;but sometimes the marble is sopellucid as to let the light through, and in a degree to
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